Experts at Sellafield have opened and repacked a 50-year-old plutonium can for the first time as part of a £1 billion programme. The outer packaging in a small number of canisters had began to show signs of degradation so had to be repackaged. The material was originally placed in an…

Sellafield’s constant quest for safer, more efficient ways of working has received an exciting boost from a group of Glasgow-based researchers. The Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (FCAP) is developing an innovative approach to the problem of remote hydrogen detection which may have important potential for the world-wide nuclear industry….

Groundbreaking technology that could help the nuclear energy industry deal with major clean-up challenges was the showcase centrepiece of an event recently attended by Sellafield and National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL)...

During an event held in May at Strathclyde University’s Technology and Innovation Centre, Sellafield issued a call for innovative ways of addressing the challenges of POCO. Post Operational Clean Out (POCO) is the process that takes place when a nuclear plant has reached the end of its operating life and…

The waste ‘packages’ currently stored on the Sellafield site was the focus of the Game Changers’ Condition Monitoring & Inspection call for innovation. Over thirty applications were received with four progressing to Proof of Concept stage after generating interest from Sellafield’s technical teams.

A challenge launched during the summer of 2018 was to explore technologies which would enable Sellafield to analyse the contents of gloveboxes, specifically allowing them to identify the presence of potentially unknown objects. Applications were invited for solutions to meet this challenge, the difference with this Game Changers call for innovation being that more mature technologies…